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Playboy Magazine Collection

An Inventory

Creator: Hefner, Hugh (1926-2017)

Title: Playboy Magazine Collection

Dates: 1955-2018, bulk 1955-1979.

Abstract: This collection consists of issues of Playboy and OUI magazines ranging from December 1955-June 2018. Playboy is unique among other erotic magazines of its time for its role as a purveyor of culture through political commentary, literature, and interviews with prominent activists, politicians, authors, and artists.

The bulk of the collection dates from the 1960s-1970s and includes articles and interviews related to political debates such as the Cold War, Communism, Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave feminism, LGBTQ rights, and the depiction and consumption of the body. Researchers studying American Culture in the 1960s/70s, Gender & Sexuality, History of Advertising, and History of Photography will find this material of particular interest.

Extent: 16 boxes, 6.6 linear feet

Language: English

Repository: Drew University Library, Madison NJ

Biographical and History Note:

Hugh Hefner, (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017), the founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, was known as a free speech activist, philanthropist, and proponent of sexual freedom. He founded Playboy magazine in 1953 with $1,000 seed money provided by his mother, Grace Hefner, a devout Methodist. The magazine quickly became known for its subversive visual, literary, and political content.

Playboy is unique among other erotic magazines of the same time period for its role as a purveyor of culture through political commentary, literature, and interviews with prominent activists, politicians, authors, and artists.

As a lifestyle magazine, Playboy curated and commodified the image of the modern bachelor of leisure. A man who embodied sophistication and culture through his jazz music, mid-century modern apartment, extensive library, and knowledge of political affairs, art, literature, a man who was, above all, a consumer for a modern economy.

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Scope and Content:

This collection consists of issues of Playboy and OUI magazines ranging from December 1955-June 2018. The bulk of the collection was published in the 1960s-1970s and relates to political debates such as the Cold War, Vietnam, Civil Rights Movement, second-wave feminism, counter-culture and youth movements, and the depiction and consumption of the body.

Playboy sought to convey an image of artistic and cultural sophistication through interviews and content with figures such as Pablo Picasso (January 1964), Salvador Dali (July 1964), The Beatles (February 1965), Bob Dylan (March 1966), and John Denver (December 1977).

Playboy’s subversive role in American society consisted not only of the provocative depiction of the female nude, but the presentation of political material, notably through interviews with Civil Rights figures such as Miles Davis (September 1962), Malcolm X (May 1963), October 1963 (Cassius Clay), Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 1965) and Eldridge Cleaver (December 1968), artists such as Miles Davis (September 1962), Sammy Davis, Jr, (December 1966), and authors such as James Baldwin (January 1964, December 1964), Nadine Gordimer (May 1972), and Tennessee Williams (April 1973).

The magazine also included talks with the Imperial Wizard of the KKK (August 1965), and Gov. George Wallace, known for his vehement opposition to Civil Rights (November 1964). These articles and interviews would oftentimes be paired with articles penned by Civil Rights activists, most significantly in December 1966’s Dialog in Black and White a discussion between James Baldwin and Budd Schulberg, thus demonstrating the deep cultural divide.

The magazine also offered political commentary on communism and the Cold War through interviews with Ayn Rand (March 1964), Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (May 1966), and Fidel Castro (January 1967). While other lifestyle magazines shied away from controversial political content, Playboy embraced debates and published articles and interviews that would not be present elsewhere.

Arrangement:

Collection is arranged chronologically. Pages 6-36 of this finding aid contain a detailed description of the highlights in each issue, including articles and stories featured on the cover. The description is not a comprehensive list of contents in each issue.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition: Purchase.

Restrictions: Permission to publish must be obtained from the Drew University Library. Researcher is responsible for securing additional copyright permissions from Playboy Enterprises. Preferred Citation: [Author(s)] [Title of Article] Playboy Magazine, [Month, year.] [pages] Playboy Magazine Collection. Drew University Library.Processor: Becca Miller, 2018.

Related MaterialPlayboy Collection. Georgetown University Rare Books

Index TermsPeople

Hefner, Hugh M. (Hugh Marston), 1926-2017 (lcnaf)

SubjectsMen’s magazines (lcsh)Photography of Women (lcsh)Erotica—Periodicals (lcsh)Advertising in Popular Culture (lcsh)Fashion (lcsh)

Document TypesMagazine (periodical) (aat)Journalism (aat)

Suggested Additional Reading:

Fraterrigo, Elizabeth. Playboy and the making of the good life in modern America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Osgerby, Bill. Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America. Oxford: Berg, 2001.

Related MaterialMs. Magazine Collection. Drew University Library. Chicago Christian Advocate, vol. 9, July 15, 1965, “Playboy Goes Religious.”

Motive Magazine, vol. 26, November 1965, Hugh Hefner Interview.

Motive Magazine, vol. 29, February 1969, “Women’s Liberation.”

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Container ListBox 1: July 1955-October 1963Box 2: November 1963-September 1964Box 3: October 1964-September 1965Box 4: October 1965-May 1966Box 5: June 1966-March 1967Box 6: April 1967-November 1967Box 7: December 1967-May 1968Box 8: June 1968-November 1968Box 9: December 1968-December 1969Box 10: May 1970-October 1971Box 11: December 1971-April 1973Box 12: May 1973-December 1974Box 13: January 1975-March 1977Box 14: May 1977-September 1978Box 15: November 1978-January 1980Box 16: Playboy February 1980-June 2018; OUI June 1973-February 1979

Highlights of Drew Playboy Magazine Collection: Ian Fleming’s James Bond Novels

o April 1964, May 1964, June 1964, June 1965, July 1965, March 1966, April 1966, June 1979

Music and Cultureo February 1959, September 1962, February 1963, February 1964, October 1964,

February 1965, October 1965, February 1966, October 1966, December 1966, February 1967, March 1966, December 1967, February 1969, October 1975, January 1976, September 1976, August 1979

1960s-70s Counter-Culture, Student Movementso September 1958, June 1959, June 1966, September 1966, March 1967, September

1967, October 1967, December 1967, January 1968, March 1968, December 1968, September 1969, October 1969, September 1970, August 1971, January 1975, September 1978

Civil Rights Movemento July 1962, September 1962, May 1963, January 1964, October 1964, December

1964, January 1965, August 1965, January 1966, February 1966, April 1966, December 1966, December 1968, January 1969, October 1971, April 1973, May 1977, July 1977, December 1977, February 1980

Cold War and Communismo February 1963, March 1964, December 1964, May 1966, January 1967, February

1967, May 1967, December 1967, March 1968, December 1968, June 1969, July

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1969, May 1970, October 1970, January 1971, April 1972, October 1974, December 1974, August 1976, September 1976, August 1979

Watergateo November 1963, May 1974, September 1976, March 1977

LGBTQ Representationo April 1971, January 1975, October 1975, August 1976, September 1976, July

1977.

Environmental Activismo January 1971, January 1976, March 1977

Automobile Advertisementso January 1967, May 1969, June 1969, May 1973, June 1973, April 1974, October

1975.

Tobacco Advertisementso May 1958, February 1959, June 1964, November 1964, January 1967, November

1967, November 1968, January 1969, June 1969, December 1969, September 1970, April 1971, May 1973, October 1974, December 1974, October 1975, February 1976, September 1976,

Drugso November 1963, November 1967, February 1978, September 1978

Art Historyo January 1967, (The playmate as art), July 1968, August 1974, (Andy Warhol),

December 1974 (Salvador Dali), May 1976 (Cover based on Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon).

Fashion, Design and Styleo September 1956, February 1959, April 1959, June 1959, March 1964, May 1966,

August 1968, October 1968, November 1968, May 1969, July 1969, September 1969, October 1969, December 1969, May 1970, February 1972, October 1974, October 1977.

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Detailed Listing of Individual Issues and Featured Contents

July 1955

Cover: Janet Pilgrim The Legend of the Crooked Coronet, fiction – Michael Areln A Steady, High-Type Fellow – Herbert Gold Yo Ho Ho – Thomas Mario Notes: First issue to feature “Janet Pilgrim,” the name adopted by Charlaine Edith

Karalus (June 13, 1934 – May 1, 2017). Karalus was “discovered” at Playboy Enterprises and became the model for the archetypal “girl next door” image in Playboy. The name “Janet Pilgrim” was reportedly chosen by Hefner as a play on the image of the puritanical reputation of the pilgrim settlers. The caption in the first issue reads: "We found Miss July in our own circulation department, processing subscriptions, renewals, and back copy orders. Her name is Janet Pilgrim and she's as efficient as she is good looking.”

December, 1955 The Next in Line, fiction – Ray Bradbury Uncovering a Nudist Wedding, article – Earl Wilson The First Sap of Manhood, satire – Shepherd Mead A Holiday Evening with Janet Pilgrim – pictorial [Janet Pilgrim was an “office

playmate,” discovered working in the Playboy corporate offices and later featured in July 1955, December 1955 and October 1956 as playmate of the month.]

Notes: missing front cover

March, 1956

Cover: Janet Pilgrim, playmate of the month. Couching at the Door, fiction – D.K. Broster The First Night of Lent, article – Ray Bradbury The Great Guessing Game, article – Jules Archer I Am Committing Suicide, fiction – Delmas W. Abbott Note: First fold out “pin up” centerfold issue. Featuring Marian Stafford.

July, 1956 The Newport Jazz Festival – George Wein The Woman in the Case – Anton Chekhov The Dream House and How to Avoid It, satire – Shepherd Mead

September, 1956 Love Incorporated, fiction – Robert Sheckley Orpheus in Haiti, travel – Patrick Chase Playboy’s Penthouse Apartment – modern living Boxing’s Child of Destiny: Floyd Patterson Prepares for the championship– John Lardner

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May, 1958 The Man in the Well, fiction – Berkely Mather Wizards of a Small Planet, article – Anthony Boucher Life and Death of a Spanish Grandee, article –Ken Purdy Spring House Party, attire – Frederic A. Birmingham Notes: missing cover – earliest cigarette ad in collection

August, 1958 Eros and Unreason in Detroit, opinion – John Keats The Summer in the City, attire – Frederic A. Birmingham Go To Blazers, attire – Blake Rutherford

September, 1958 Cover: Playboy’s College Playmate The House of Hate, fiction – Browning Norton The Well-Glad Undergrad, attire – Frederic A. Birmingham Howls of Ivy, article –Frank Kilburn Coffee The Womanization of America, article – Philip Wylie

December, 1958 Cover: A Holiday Evening with Janet Pilgrim Yuletide Gifts for the Playboy at Home Playboy’s Fifth Anniversary Scrapbook The Pump Room, a man at his leisure

February, 1959 Cover: The 1959 Jazz All Stars The Buttondown Boys at Creepsville High, fiction- Stewart P. Brown Rebel with a Caustic Cause, entertainment – Larry Siegel Lighters for the Man of Today, accessories Let’s Go to My Place, attire –Blake Rutherford

April 1959 Chaucer in Hollywood, humor Playboy’s Weekend Hideaway, modern living Silverstein fights a bull, pictorial – Shel Silverstein

June, 1959 The Origins of the Beat Generation – Jack Kerouac A Formal Affair, attire – Robert Green Beer and Skittles, food and drink – Thomas Mario Romanoff’s, a man at his leisure On the Water / In the Water, attire – Blake Rutherford

June, 1962

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Cover: A Toast to Bikinis Playboy Panel Discussion – The Womanization of America The Great Paper Chaise, article – Al Morgan From Lilliput to Brobdingnag, article – Arthur C. Clarke Notes: Detached, torn front cover, cut out on back cover.

July, 1962

o Through the Racial Looking Glass. “A Perceptive Report on the American Negro and His New Militancy for Uncompromising Equality”, article – Nat Hentoff

o The Right Man for the Job, fiction – J.C. Thompson o How to Succeed with Women without really trying – Shepherd Mead o A Sense of Values. The treadmill scramble for money and status is not the route to real

wealth, article – J. Paul Gettyo Janet Pilgrim in Palm Springs, pictorial, Playboy’s own office playmate spends her

vacation in the California sun. o Note: First article by Nat Hentoff considering race and Civil Rights in the U.S. Sets the

stage for the September 1962 interview with Miles Davis.

September, 1962

Interview – Miles Davis The Thin Red Line, fiction – James Jones Sterling Moss: A Nodding Acquaintance with Death – Ken Purdy Wall Street in Crisis, article – J. Paul Getty

February, 1963 Playboy Interview with Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Speaks his Mind The Chicks of Cleopatra, pictorial 1963 Playboy Jazz Stars A New “Jeeves” Novelette by P.G. Wodehouse Norman Mailer and William F. Buckley, Jr., debate the American Right Wing [Excellent

article for Cold War debates] A Playmate Pillow Fight (Pictorial) Notes: Detached, torn front cover.

May, 1963

Interview – Malcolm X. [Notes: In this interview, Malcolm X explains the goals of the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad. This interview marks a key moment in Malcolm X’s intellectual life before his break with Elijah Muhammad and the NOI in March 1964 whereupon he founded his own separatist movement.]

July, 1963

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The Playboy Panel: 1984 and Beyond, discussion with Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, James Blish, Ray Bradbury, Algis Budrys, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Rod Serling, Theodore Sturgeon, William Tenn and A.E. Van Vogt.

The Playboy Philosophy, Part 8 – Hugh Hefner The Bunnies: An Appreciative Salute to Playboys Cotton-tailed Beauties Air France, a man at his leisure – Leroy Neiman Notes: Detached front cover. Some pages stuck together

August, 1963 The Playboy Philosophy, Part 9 – Hugh Hefner Silverstein in a Nudist Camp, humor - Shel Silverstein Naked Nude, fiction - Bernard Malamud The Imp of the Impossible, article - J. Paul Getty The Only Pure Love - Herbert Gold

September, 1963 Interview - Richard Burton “Love Death and the Hubby Image” – William Iverson documents the plight of the

marrying male “The Relationship” by Jules Feiffer “The Businessman at Bay” by J. Paul Getty Playboy’s Pigskin Preview “The Life Work of Juan Diaz” by Ray Bradbury “Ah, Women, Women” by Alberto Moravia

October, 1963 An Exclusive Interview with Nehru of India Beginning the Autobiography of Lenny Bruce Your 1964 Jazz Poll Ballot Eight-Page Portfolio of Elsa Martinelli at Work and Aquatic Play Fall & Winter Fashion Forecast Notes: Tear in front cover

November, 1963 Interview – James Hoffa Hallucinogens – articles

o A Reporter’s Objective View – Dan Wakefieldo A Novelist’s Personal Experience – Alan Harringtono A Philosopher’s Visionary Prediction – Aldous Huxley

How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, autobiography – Lenny Bruce The Playboy Dinner Jacket, attire – Robert L. Green

December, 1963 – Tenth Holiday Edition Christmas Fact and Fiction by Albert Schweitzer The Morals of Money, article - J. Paul Getty The Vacation, fiction - Ray Bradbury

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Eyewitness, fiction - Alberto Moravia The “Noble” Experiment, nostalgia - Ben Hecht How to Read a Book Superficially, article - Mortimer Adler Everybody Shiny on His Own Side, opinion - Robert Paul Smith To Paradise, by Ferry, memoir - Arthur Kopit How to Talk Dirty and Influence People, autobiography - Lenny Bruce Beelzebub, fiction - Robert Bloch A Corking Evening, fiction - Lawrence Durrell Playboy’s Ten Favorite Playmates of the Decade, A Photo Uncoverage of Kim Novak

and Susan Strasberg, plus a nine-page gift portfolio

January 1964 Interview – Vladimir Nabokov The Property of a Lady, fiction – Ian Fleming The Hosting Jacket, attire The Wisdom of Pablo Picasso, credo – Pablo Picasso MM [Marilyn Monroe] Remembered , pictorial The Conflicting Ideologies of East & West – Bertrand Russell The Uses of the Blues – James Baldwin Advice to a Young Man – Ernest Hemingway

February, 1964 – Special Jazz & Hi-Fi Issue Winners in Playboy Jazz Poll The Latest in Hi-Fi Equipment The Playboy Record Library Playboy Panel on Jazz Today and Tomorrow with Stan Kenton, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave

Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan and others Plus Mamie Van Doren Unadorned Boudoir Fun with Richard Burton A New Novel by P.G. Wodehouse

March 1964 Cover: Girls of Russia and the Iron Curtain Countries Interview – Ayn Rand A Bit of a Dreamer, a bit of a Fool, fiction – Romain Gary The Italian Line, Modern Living – Ken W. Purdy Living with Labor, article – J. Paul Getty Playmates Revisited, 1955, pictorial

April, 1964 “Oh Rudy, I’ll be your slave if you’ll let me see your April Issue of Playboy with the new

James Bond novel, ‘You Only Live Twice’ by Ian Fleming and the wild parody of movie lovers by Peter Sellers!” - From Front Cover

Sellers Mimes the Movie Lovers [Peter Sellers parodying scenes from classic films] Highbrow Authors and Middlebrow Books – John W. Aldridge

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May, 1964 Playboy Interview: Jack Lemmon You Only Live Twice – Ian Fleming Playmate of the Year Pictorial Playmates Revisited – 1957 – Pictorial

June, 1964 (2) “Intimations of Immortality” – Prolonging the Human Life Span by Frederik Pohl Conclusion of a New James Bond Novel by Ian Fleming. You Only Live Twice. Plus a Special Pictorial on Mamie Van Doren Notes: Excellent issue for showing examples of advertisements of alcohol, tobacco, cars,

classic literature, European travel, fashion. About 20 pages of full page ads, up to 50 of partial page ads. Notable: 7-up (pg. 46) and Van Heusen “most unmarried” shirt (pg. 63).

July, 1964 How to Throw a Beach Bash How Not to Build a Pool B.B. The Sex Kitten Grows Up by Andre Maurois Helen Gurly Brown on “Sex and the office”. A New Chapter in the Human Comedy, fiction – William Saroyan Playboy Interview with Salvador Dali

August, 1964 Bunnies of Chicago Ford Goes to the Races Dick Gregory Interview The Shining Ones, fiction – Arthur C. Clarke And I mean that Sincerely, fiction – Ray Russell The Happy Hipster, fiction - Herbert Gold The Homogenized Man, article – J. Paul Getty Playmates Revisited – 1960 – Pictorial

September, 1964 Pious Pornographers Revisited, article – William Iverson Nudest Peter Sellers and Elike Sommer “Playboy in Jamaica” Annual “Pigskin Preview” Interview with Henry Miller Letters from Bohemia, nostalgia - Ben Hecht Youth, Love, Death, fiction - J.P. Donleavy

October, 1964 Heavy Set by Ray Bradbury The Brass Telephone, fiction - Ken Purdy

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Sue Me Rich, fiction - Bernard Wolfe Your 1965 Jazz-Poll Ballot An Interview with Cassius Clay Fall & Winter Fashion Forecast A Satyric Photo Satire of the Bedroom Techniques of Top Movie Directors by Jerry

Yulsman Instant Epitaphs - Larry Siegel. The Pious Pornographers, Revisited - William Iverson [Breastfeeding and female

orgasm] Rainbows in a Bucket - Vance Bourjaily Music of the Absurd, opinion - James Blish

November, 1964 Interview with Governor George Wallace Playboy Panel: America’s Cultural Explosion The Playboy Cars 1965 Fine Art, the Finest Investment – J. Paul Getty Notes: Good option for examples of advertisements, cars, fashion, art, lifestyle

December, 1964 – Gala Christmas Issue Once, in Aleppo - Irvin Shaw Words of a Native Son - James Baldwin Semantics and the Cold War, opinion - Bertrand Russell Interview with Ian Fleming Velvet and Apollo - Frederic Morton Sauve Qui Peut - Lawrence Durrell Word Play - Gerald Kersh On the Scene - Ray Russell The French Myth - Joseph Wechsberg Hostileman - Jules Feiffer Waldo Grebb and his Electric Baton - Jean Shepherd The Christmas Carol Caper - William Iverson The Pursuit of Unhappiness, opinion - Joseph Wood Krutch Playboy Philosophy – Hugh Hefner, roundtable with Father Norman J. O’Connor, Rev.

Richard E. Gary, Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum, and Murray Burnett.

January, 1965 Interview with Martin Luther King. Jr. [Longest print interview King gave] Political Conventions as Showbiz – Budd Schulberg The Psychology of Personnel Management – J. Paul Getty My War with the Machines, humor – Woody Allen A Hypothetical History of Harems – pictorial

February, 1965 Interview with The Beatles At Home with Kim Novak - pictorial

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Latest in Stereo Equipment The Eye, fiction - Vladimir Nabokov This Time, Tomorrow, fiction - Ken W. Purdy The Strategy & Tactics of Job Jumping, article - Vance Packard

March, 1965 - Cover - Jennifer Jackson. First “playmate of the month” featuring an African American woman.

The Eye, fiction - Vladimir Nabokov A Clowny Night in the Red-Eyed World, fiction - Calder Willingham Far-Out Safari, sports - Robert Ruark Playboy Panel: Uses and Abuses of the New Leisure, discussion with Steve Allen,

Cleveland Amory, Terry Southern and others. Silverstein in Mexico, humor - Shel Silvestein What is Normal? – Wardell B. Pomeroy. A Kinsey Colleague examines the chaotic

criteria by which layman and lawman pass judgment on the sexual behavior of human beings.

June, 1965 For the First Time Anywhere: The Nude Ursula Andressin an Eye-Filling 12 Page

Pictorial The Big Bunny Hope to Los Angeles and Jamaica The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming Playboy Interview with Melvin Belli Sheila - Robert Ruark The History of Sex in Cinema, part 3 – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

July, 1965 The Girls of the Riviera Sex and the Single Sherman – Allan Sherman July Fourth Fun with Jean Shepherd Interview with Marcello Mastroianni The Man with the Golden Gun [Final Installment] – Ian Fleming

August, 1965 An Explosive Interview with the Klan’s Imperial Wizard – Robert Shelton What’s Nude Pussycat - Comedian Woody Allen Cavorts through Undress Rehearsals for

his new flick with Ursula Andress. Peter Sellers and the Bare Belles of Paris’s Crazy Horse Silverstein on Fire Island – Shel Silverstein Barbara - Robert Ruark Milestones of Success, article - J. Paul Getty Friendship - Ken W. Purdy History of Sex in Cinema, part 4 – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

September, 1965 Irreverent Interview with Peter O’Toole

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Our Annual Pigskin Preview The Legendary Sex Stars of the Twenties Gahan Wilson’s Mother Goose Afternoon in Andalusia - Robert Ruark Call Them Madam, article - Irving Wallace Bye-Bye Stick Shift, article - Ken W. Purdy Chariot of Fire, fiction - Ray Russell Horsing Them in with Hemingway, memoir - Arnold Gingrich History of Sex in Cinema, part 5– Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

October, 1965 The Bunnies of Miami Your Jazz-Poll Ballot Interview with Atheist Madalyn Murray Superman Nostalgia, The Great Comic-Book Heroes - Jules Feiffer The Fireplace - Pietro Di Donato The Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot - Jean Shepherd The Nail and the Oracle - Theodore Sturgeon An Unhurried View of Ralph Ginzburg - Dan Wakefield City of Light ’65 - Herbert Gold

November, 1965 – James Bond’s Girls (2 copies) Playboy Interview – Sean Connery James Bond’s Girls – Pictorial essay The Silence of Oswald – John Clellon Holmes. Two years after the tragedy, the

obfuscating fog of emotion has lifted sufficiently for an objective probing of the forces that motivated the assassin

History of Sex in Cinema, part 6 – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

December, 1965 - Gala Christmas Issue Despair, fiction - Vladimir Nabokov The Old Neighborhood - Henry Miller Nothing Works and Nobody Cares, article - Robert Ruark Bread on the Waters - John Le Carre Jeeves and the Greasy Bird - P.G. Wodehouse The Advocate, satire - Jules Feiffer Jack Gelber Ko’s A Chinese Commie, Maybe, humor – Jack Gelber Lincoln and Kennedy - Jim Bishop The Birthday Party - Evan Hunter Red Ryder Nails the Hammond Kid - Jean Shepherd Playboy Interview - Al Capp Shel Silverstein and the honorable William Benton More adventures of Israel Bond Playboy’s 15-page portfolio of sex stars featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Sophia Loren, Kim

Novak, Ursula Andress, Carroll Baker, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot et al.

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1966January, 1966

Interview with Princess Grace Living with Automation, article – J. Paul Getty When Will the Demonstrations End? – James Farmer The dynamic director of CORE

supplies some forthright, realistic answers to that crucial aspect of the fight for civil rights

The Parisians and the Germans, memoir – Jean-Paul Sartre

February, 1966 (2 copies) A provocative pictorial on the girls of Rio Playboy Jazz Poll Winners The Latest in stereo and TV equipage Interview with Federico Fellini Despair, fiction – Vladimir Nabokov Mood Ebony, article – James Farmer. The Leader of CORE examines the emergent

concept of “negritude” and its activist impact on the struggle for Civil Rights

March, 1966 “Octopussy” Beginning a Previously Unpublished Ian Fleming Adventure in Which

James Bond Pursues a British Agent Turned Thief and Murderer Despair, fiction – Vladimir Nabokov O’Hara’s Love, fiction – Pietro Di Donato We’re Happening All Over, Baby! – Nat Hentoff. What’s behind the smoke screen of

sound and fury – and the public furor- that obscures the motives and meaning of the new generation of anti-establishment social activists.

Playboy Interview – Bob Dylan Playboy Panel: Crisis in Law Enforcement

April, 1966 Concluding Ian Fleming’s James Bond novelette, “Octopussy” Explosive Interview with Neo-Nazi Rockwell, Playboy Interview: George Lincoln

Rockwell. Spring and Summer Fashion Forecast Chronicle of an Event, fiction - Ken W. Purdy Marriage, Food, Money, Children, Ice Skating, fiction - Herbert Gold Tiger, Tigger, Burning Bright, sports - Jack Denton Scott Despair, fiction - Vladimir Nabokov History of Sex in Cinema, part 8 – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

May, 1966 Playboy Interview: Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Capital Punishment – Michael Disalle Playmate first class: Jo Collins in Vietnam – pictorial essay

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Notes: Full page advertisement by H.I.S. “Slobs”

June, 1966 – The Girls of Texas Playboy Interview with Mike Nichols “Here’s Looking at You, Kid” –The Bogart Boom. The Man and the Myth – Kenneth

Tynan; The Career and the Cult – Bosley Crowther; A Bogart Quiz; Bogart Filmography and Bibliography

The Mystique of Moral Overkill, opinion – Romain Gary

August, 1966 – Jane Fonda Issue Bunnies of Dixie The Death of God by Rev. William Hamilton. A renowned ‘christian atheist’ proclaims

and defines the radical new concept of Christianity without a supreme being Playboy Interview with H.L. Hunt “Further Adventures of Secret Agent OY OY 7” On the Secret Service of His Majesty the

Queen, a parody – Sol Weinstein. Jane Fonda in the Buff The History of Sex in Cinema – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

September, 1966 LSD’s Leary Interviewed! Playboy Interview with Timothy Leary College Fashion & Football Previewed! Topless Craze Reviewed! Buddy-Buddy, fiction - Kanin The Cold Society – Nat Hentoff The Gold of Troy, fiction – Harry Mark Petrakis All to Scale, fiction - Durrell It’s…Superspa!, reportage- Herbert Gold The History of Sex in Cinema - Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

October, 1966 – Ann Margret Issue Your Playboy Jazz-Poll Ballot Ann-Margret as Modern Art - pictorial Fall & Winter Fashion Forecast Sex Stars of the Forties Shakespearean Photo Satire The Man in the Rorschach Shirt - Ray Bradbury Untitled - Ken W. Purdy First Aid for Freddie - P.G. Wodehouse Playboy Interview: Mel Brooks The History of Sex in Cinema – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

November, 1966 Skiing Europe

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The Sexual Freedom League, article – Jack Lind Playboy Interview with Norman Thomas Nudest Look in Feminist Fashions The Swimmers, fiction - William Saroyan The Ancient Company, fiction - Herbert Gold Daphne Bigelow and the Tin-Foil Noose, humor - Jean Shepherd The Supreme Court, article - Nat Hentoff The Ninth Upland Game Bird, sports - Vance Bourjaily How I would start again today, article - J. Paul Getty. The Most Miraculous Organ, fiction - Ray Russell The History of Sex in Cinema – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

December, 1966 – Gala Christmas Issue New Spy Novel by Len “Ipcress File” Deighton. An Expensive Place to Die Dialog in Black and White, discussion - James Baldwin and Budd Schulberg My Favorite Sleuths, article - Kingsley Amis So Pretty and So Green, fiction - Mackinlay Kantor God Bless the Gentile, article - Harry Golden Fantastic Trio: Playback - Arthur C. Clarke Interview with Sammy Davis Jr. Women as Angels, article - Pearl Buck One Man at the Film Festivals, article - Kenneth Tynan The Seven Coffins, memoir - John Gunther The IBM and I, article - Brooks Atkinson Accidentally Good, fiction - Robert Ruark Is My Culture Showing? Opinion - Malcolm Muggeridge “The Girls of Tahiti” Playboy on the Town in London

1967January, 1967 – Special Holiday Anniversary Issue

Ray Bradbury’s “The Lost City of Mars” Part 2 of Len “Ipcress File” Deighton’s New Spy Novel, “An Expensive Place to Die” U.S. Senator Long on “Big Brother in America” Rolf “The Deputy” Hochhuth on the Immorality of War. “Slaughter of the Innocents” –

Rolf Hochhuth Conscience versus Conformity, article – Eric Bentley Playboy Interview with Fidel Castro History of Sex in Cinema – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

February, 1967 Playboy Jazz Winners A 13 page pictorial on “The Girls of Casino Royale” with text Woody Allen Playboy Interview with Mark Lane. Rush to Judgment author Mark Lane reveals new

facts of Kennedy Assassination in an exclusive interview.

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An Expensive Place to Die, fiction - Len Deighton Where all things wise and fair descend, fiction - Irving Shaw Second breakfast, fiction -- Jerome Weidman Conscription and commitment. U.S. Congressman Thomas Curtis on Ending the Draft. Where are the Russians? Article –John Bentley

March, 1967 Playboy Interview with Orson Welles Executive Salaries, article – Vance Packard The Grooming Game The New Aristocrats – Paul Goodman. Today’s college students –disenchanted with a

world they never made and more activist than ever before – are America’s emergent power elite.

April, 1967 – “Spice from the Orient” playmate Spring & Summer Fashion forecast Playboy Interview with Arnold Toynbee Three Ways to end the Personal Income Tax by Bishop Pike, Jack Anderson, Pete

Hamill. Tax the Oil Companies – Jack Anderson; Tax Organized Religion – Bishop James Pike; Tax Organized Crime – Pete Hamill

“Spice from the Orient” playmate of the month, Gwen Wong History of Sex in Cinema – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

May, 1967 (2 issues) Grand Prix Racing by Ken W. Purdy 8-page pictorial on rising Sex Star Sylva Koscina Interview with Woody Allen Call for Curbs on the CIA by U.S. Senator Stephen M. Young

June, 1967 (2) Exotic pictorial on the oriental beauties of You Only Live Twice with text by Roald Dahl Climate of Violence – Max Lerner Peacock dreams, fiction - Herbert Gold Silverstein in London – Shel Silverstein Playboy Panel: Religion and the New Morality History of Sex in Cinema Business is Business – J. Paul Getty Notes: Good example of Honda ads, 2 page spread on 6-7.

July, 1967 “The Girls of Paris” pictorial A Horse’s Head, fiction - Evan hunter Interview with Michael Caine Judaism and the Death of God, opinion – Rabbi Richard L. Rubenstein

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August, 1967 – Playmate of the Year Issue (2 copies) Interview with F. Lee Bailey The Underground Press, article – Jacob Brackman Playboy Plays the Commodities Market, article – Michael Laurence

September, 1967 Playboy’s Pigskin Preview Budd Schulberg on His Watts Workshop Hollywood’s First Psychedelic Sex Epic An Interview with New York’s Mayor Lindsay. Playboy Interview: John V. Lindsay Nat Hentoff on Youth vs. the Establishment. Youth—The Oppressed Majority.

Denigrated, disenfranchised and put upon by police, parents and a consciousness-constricting educational system, the under-25 generation is sealed off from society.

Testimony Concerning Edward Darwin Caparell, fiction - Ken W. Purdy The Courtship, fiction - Isaac Bashevis Singer A Small Buffet in Maldita – fiction, Harry Brown The Secret Mission of the Blue-Assed Buzzard, humor - Jean Shepherd

October, 1967 Ten Page Pictorial on the Hippies Interview with Jim Garrison The New Wave Makers, article – Herbert Gold. A Sympathetic portrait of those far-out

and fanciful west coast hippies, diggers and new leftniks who spark the action on today’s youth scene—and generate bemused consternation among their elders.

The Crazy One, memoir – Norman Mailer Computers – Their Built-in Limitations, article – Max Gunther Computers –Their Scope Today, article – Ernest Havemann

November, 1967 Interview – Michelangelo Antonioni Sex, Ecstasy and the Psychedelic Drugs, article – R.E.I. Masters The High Cost of Being a Congressman, article – U.S. Rep. Morris K. Udall Notes: Centerfold features Kaya Christian smoking a cigarette.

December, 1967 (2) Interview – Johnny Carson A Good Cigar is a Smoke, fiction – P.G. Wodehouse Resolving our Vietnam Problem, opinion – John Kenneth Galbraith The UFO Gap, article – J. Allen Hynek The Criminal Mentality, article – John Bartlow Martin The Attack on Privacy, article – Justice William O. Douglas

1968January, 1968

Interview – Norman Mailer

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The Yellow Room, fiction – John Cheever God and the Hippies, article – Harvey Cox Death Warmed Over, opinion – Ray Bradbury

February, 1968 (2) Jazz Edition Interview – Jim Brown Lower the Voting Age, opinion – U.S. Senator Jacob K. Javits Sights 7 Sounds of ’68, modern living Jazz and Pop ‘68

March, 1968 (2) Interview with Truman Capote Open Letter to an American Liberal, opinion – Kenneth Tynan Beating Inflation, a Playboy Primer, article – Michael Laurence Spies on Campus, article – Frank Donner. A Sobering examination of political

surveillance in the once-inviolate groves of academe. The Bizarre Beauties of Barbarella. Jane Fonda and a cast of out of this world eye

dazzlers bring the uninhibited French comic strip to the screen.

April, 1968 (2) Interview with Charles Percy Tax and the Single Man, article – Philip Stern The Graduate – Playmate of the month Bucking the Scientific Establishment, article – Theodore J. Gordon The History of Sex in the Cinema, article – Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert

May, 1968 Interview: William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson. A candid conversation with the

celebrated sex researchers and best-selling authors of “human sexual response.” Ulysses at Cannes, article – William Wiser The Dead Astronaut, fiction – J.G. Ballard The Playboy’s Guide to a Continental Holiday, travel – Len Deighton The Snooping Machine, article – Alan Westin The Art of Composing a Meal, food driink Note: “Memo to advertisers” insert in front pages. Good issue for considering

advertising.

June, 1968 Interview with John Kenneth Galbraith On Our Lakes and Rivers, article – Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Second Genesis, article – Max Gunther

July, 1968 Interview – Paul Newman The Fully Automated Love Life of Henry Keanridge, fiction – Stan Dryer

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A New Order of Priorities, opinion – U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright Bright on White, attire Must the Tedium Be the Message, article – Newton Minow Silverstein among the hippies, humor – Shel Silverstein

August, 1968 (2) Interview – William Sloane Coffin The Young Man who Read Brilliant Books, fiction – Stephen Dixon Dream Cars, Modern Living More Silverstein Among the Hippies Exploring a New City, travel

September, 1968 (2) Interview – Stanley Kubrick Gallic Urbanity, attire – Robert L. Green The Educated Executive, article – J. Paul Getty The War on Dissent, article – Nat Hentoff Pigskin Preview Back to Campus, attire

October, 1968 (2) Interview – Ralph Nader Fall and Winter Fashion Forecast, attire – Robert L. Green The Perilous Plight of Sir George, article – Alexis A. Gilliland TV’s First Nude Mexico, travel – Len Deighton Alvarez, article – Hebert Huncke A Playboy Pad: High Life in the Round, modern living

November, 1968 Interview – Don Rickles Astropolis: The First Space Resort, future living – Krafft A. Ehricke Skiing: From A to V travel Personality by prescription, article – Ernest Havemann The Great Greatcoat, attire Instant Electorate, article – Robert Sherrill

December, 1968 Interview – Eldridge Cleaver Another way of dying, fiction – Francis Clifford The Regular Way, humor – Bill Cosby On Creativity, symposium – Abe Burrows, Truman Capote, Lawrence Durrell, James T.

Farrell, Allen Ginsberg, Le Roi Jones, Arthur Miller, Henry Miller, Normal Podhoretz, Georges Simenon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, William Styron, and John Updike

Pacifism in America, article – Norman Thomas The Madhouse of Change, opinion – Eric Hoffer

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In Defense of Indolence, article – Robert Morley Academic Irresponsibility, opinion – Leslie Fiedler

1969January, 1969

Interview – Lee Marvin The Decent Society symposium. Foreign Affairs – Theodore C. Sorensen; Race Relations

– John V. Lindsay; Equality & Opportunity – Kenneth B. Clarke; The Physical Environment – Peter Matthiessen; Science & Technology – Jerome B. Wiesner; Business – Charles H. Percy; Education – William Sloane Coffin; Communications – Edward P. Morgan; The Arts & Entertainment – Kenneth Tynan; Religion and Morality – Harvey Cox; Civil liberties: The Crucial Issue – Justice William O. Douglas.

Martyrs of Hope: o A Testament of Hope – Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr. In his final published

statement, the fallen Civil Rights leader points the way out of America’s racial turmoil into the promised land of true equality.

o R.F.K. the Statesman – Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. o R.F.K., the Man – Budd Schulberg

Note: 2 page Chanel Ad, pg. 28-29.

February, 1969 Interview – Mort Sahl The Intellectual as a Political Force, article – Carey McWilliams The Orient Express, travel – William Sansom Jazz & Pop ’69, article - Nat Hentoff The Myth of the Organization Man, article – J. Paul Getty

May, 1969 Interview – Bill Cosby Classic-Car Collecting, article – Ken W. Purdy The Baiting Society, opinion – Romain Gary Auto Erotica, pictorial Captivatingly Clear, article – Thomas Mario

June, 1969 Interview – Gore Vidal Downwind from Gettysburg, fiction – Ray Bradbury The Paramiltary Right, article – Eric Norden The American Novel Made Us, article – Seymour Krim Le Mans, man at his leisure – Leroy Neiman

July, 1969 Interview – Rod Steiger Putting the Dash in Haberdashery, attire – Robert L. Green Wenceslas and the Russian Bear, article – Henrich Bohl The Myth of a Balanced Federal Budget, article - J. Paul Getty

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Notes: Missing Pages in this Issue

September, 1969 Cover: Student Power What’s Warhol? Beneath the Bland Exterior that is his public image lurks as (your

choice): 1. Bland interior; 2. Consummate artist; 3. Crown prince of put-ons. – Paul Carroll

How Not to Elect a U.S. President – U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson Playboy’s Pigskin Preview The Dannold Cheque, fiction – Ken W. Purdy Back to Campus, attire Notes: Missing Pages in this Issue

October, 1969 (2) Interview – Rowan and Martin Crisis in Psychoanalysis, article – Morton Hunt Alice and Ray and Yesterday’s Flowers, article – Saul Braun A Playboy Pad: New Haven Haven, modern living Pot: A Rational Approach, opinion – Joel Fort, M.D.

December, 1969 Interview – Joe Namath Two Paths to the Top, article – J. Paul Getty Crook’s Tour, fiction – Graham Greene Hunger in America – U.S. Senator Jacob Javits Cross the Border, close the Gap, opinion – Leslie A. Fiedler Carnival in Rio, travel Sugar and Clay, article – Sugar Ray Robinson Murder in the kitchen, article – Alan Watts Notes: Good example of advertisements, specifically the “End the Draft” (pg. 2), and

cigarettes (7, 19).

1970May, 1970

Interview – William F. Buckley, Jr. Up against the wall male chauvinist pig, article – Morton Hunt A Playboy Pad: Swinging in Suburbia, modern living Enter the nonsuit, attire The War Machine, article – Robert Sherrill The Peace Department, article – U.S. Senator Vance Hartke The New Urban Car, modern living

June, 1970 Interview – Tiny Tim The Chicago Conspiracy Circus, article – Nicholas Von Hoffman And the legal questions it raises, analysis – Jon R. Waltz

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The Germans are Coming! Modern living See Naples and Live, article – John Clellon Holmes

August, 1970 Coping with future shock, a proposal for preventive planning in our personal lives and

social structures to prepare for the disorienting traumas of explosive changes in this decade and beyond, article – Alvin Toffler

Downwind from Gettysburg – Ray Bradbury Note: Missing pages, incomplete

September, 1970 Cover: Student, peace symbol cover. Interview with Peter Fonda Abortion Revolution, article – Robert Hall, M.D. Portrait of the Marxist, personality – Michael Horowitz Playboy Polls the Campuses: A National Survey of Student Attitudes on Today’s Major

Issues Portable Playhouse, modern living Note: Contains earliest Gatorade advertisement.

October, 1970 Interview – Raquel Welch A Recluse and His Guest, fiction – Tennessee Williams The Americanization of Vietnam, article – David Halberstam Bring Us Together, articles

o Reconciling the Generations – U.S. Senator George McGoverno Sharing the Wealth – Cesar Chavezo Uniting the Races – Julian Bondo Forging A Left-Right Coalition – Tom Wicker

Points of Rebellion, article – Justice William O. Douglas Our Besieged Bill of Rights, article – The Hon. Arthur J. Goldberg

November, 1970 Interview – Elliott Gould When Punishment is a Crime, article – Ramsey Clark They Became What They Beheld, article. – Edmund Carpenter Media, hair, telephones,

violence – unsettling observations on contemporary man and his artifacts by a perceptive anthropologist

And Now, A Word from Our Sponsor, article – Michael Butler Shoot-out in Johnston City, article – Carig Vetter Playboy’s Political Preference Chart

1971January, 1971

Interview – Mae West

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Airscape #1, ecology – Arthur Paul For the Holidays: Formal War, attire And elegant fare – food and drink The Vietnamization of America, opinion – David Halberstam The High Cost of Fame- symposium: Michael Crichton, James Dickey, Sam Houston

Johnson, Joe McGinniss, Mario Puzo, Gay Talese, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Dan Wakefield

A New Set of National Priorities, articleso Cleansing the Environment – U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelsono Saving the Cities – Mayor Carl B. Stokeso Eradicating Poverty – Michael Harrrington

Dear Women’s Lib, humor – Joan Rivers Note: Missing pages, incomplete issue.

April, 1971 Playboy Panel on Homosexuality, discussion: Irving Bieber, Paul Goodman, Richard H.

Kuh, Dick Leitsch, Phyllis Lyon, Marya Mannes, Judd Marmor, Ted McIlvenna, Morris Ploscowe, William Simon and Kenneth Tynan.

The Death of Liberalism, opinion– Jack Newfield Sixth Sense, article – Jules Siegel Notes: Two page spread Marlboro Man ad (pg. 64), two page spread Winston ad/.

August, 1971 Interview – George McGovern $8884.42 a second, article – Richard Rhodes The Bike Boom, modern living Goodbye to the Blind Slash Dead Kid’s Hooch, article – Arthur Hadley The Future of Marriage, article – Morton Hunt Playboy’s First Pro-Football Preview, sports – Anson Mount

September, 1971 (2) Interview – Jules Feiffer Playboy’s Student Survey 1971 French Show with the Italian Go, modern living – Ken W. Purdy Who Runs the Government? Article – Robert Semple Collecting for fun and (maybe) profit, article – Michael Laurence Notes: 1 issue Missing pages, incomplete

October, 1971 Cover – Darine Stern. Interview – Charles Evers More Futures Than One, article – Poul Anderson A.C.L.U. Let there Be Law, article – Peter Andrews Immortality is Fully Deductible, article – Craig Karpel Notes: First cover featuring a solo African American woman.

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December, 1971 Interview – Roman Polanski New York, a Town without Foreplay, article – Bruce Jay Friedman Can the Real Howard Hughes, article – Edwin Fadiman Jr. Still stand up? Article – James Phelan Shelley, memoir – Dan Greeburg A Feminist Looks at History, humor – Dr. Virginia Slimmes Vegas Comes up 007 –pictorial George Segal: Love’s Labors Cast, art – Jan Van Der Marck The Coming of the Psychopath, article – Alan Harrington My Last Mugging, article – Murray Kempton

1972February, 1972

Interview – R. Buckminster Fuller You Bet Your Life, article – Brock Yates Music for Four Ears and Other Sound Ideas, modern living America: Loved it and Left it, article – George Malko Jazz & Pop ’72, article Vested Interest, attire

April, 1972 Interview – Jack Nicholson The Thirty-Caliber Roach Clip, article – Donn Pearce. Flying the pot run from Jamaica

to Florida is a snap – except if you’re stoned (which you usually are) …) The Terminal Man, fiction – Michael Crichton Taking Over Vermont, article – Richard Pollack Seven Poems, Verse – Mao Tse-Tung Precognition, article – Anthony Burgess

May, 1972 Interview – Howard Cosell The Jewel of the Cabots, fiction – John Cheever Man’s Hidden Environment, article – David Dempsey In Search of Los Angeles, article - John Clellon Holmes Hot Rocks, modern living In a World They Never Made, verse

o Introduction – Nadine Gordimero An Agony – Joyce Nomafa Sikakaneo Pigeons at the Oppenheimer Parker – Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshalio The Watchman’s Blues – Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali o Taken for a Ride – Stanley Motjuwadio To Whom it May Concern – Sydney Sepamla

Seersucker’s Back in town, attire – Robert L Green.

July, 1972

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Interview – Anthony Herbert Far from the Madding Crowd, modern living Sex and the Single Priest, article – Garry Willis How to Steal the Presidential Nomination, humor Cause without a Rebel, article – Robert Sherrill “Take that, you soulless son of a bitch!” article – Peter Swedloff. In the battle against

machines, man usually comes up on the short end, but there is a growing number of guerrillas who have managed to deliver some telling blows.

August, 1972 Interview – Sam Peckinpah Robert Rhodes reveals the cruelty of American sex laws Senator Philip Hart Probes Corporate Crime The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World – Gabriel Garcia Marquez Playboy’s Wonder Wall, modern living God is a Variable interval – Donn Pearce Hijack, fiction – Robert L. Fish Notes: Missing pages, incomplete

December, 1972 Interview – Yevgeny Yevtushenko Head of the Family, article – Anthony Scaduto From Stonehenge to Tranquility Base, essay – Ray Bradbury In Front of God and Everybody, article – Donn Pearce

1973January, 1973

Interview – Carrroll O’Connor Seduction is a Four-Letter Word – Germaine Greer [Feminist critique of Playboy] To China with Nixon, article – William F. Buckley, Jr. Triad: The Widow, the Passenger, the Belly, fiction – John Cheever Fear—symposium: Red Adair, Denton Cooley, M.D., Aaron Henry, Brigadier General

Robin Olds, Jack Palance, Karl Wallenda

February, 1973 Interview – Milton Friedman The Spartans of Indochina, article – Tom Buckley Gone in October, article – John Clellon Holmes The Powder and the Glory, article – John Skow Oh, Little Town of Millionaires, article – Douglas Bauer Trouble in Paradise, article – John Knowles Jazz & Pop ’73, article – Nat Hentoff

April, 1973 Interview - Tennessee Williams The Lie Machine, article – Craig Vetter

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Killer, article – Dave Fisher and “Joey”Young, Gifted, Black – And Ambitious – playboy’s playmate of the month – Julie Woodson

Notes significant damage to back cover.

May, 1973 Interview – Huey Newton Sex and the Automobile What a Waste, article – Gerald Astor If you liked “1984,” you’ll love 1973, article – Nat Hentoff Notes: Two page spread auto ads. Notable for Winston Cigarette two page spread ad.

June, 1973

Interview – Walter Cronkite Do With Me What You Will, fiction – Joyce Carol Oates We Are All “Bui Doi,” article – Gloria Emerson The Writer as Political Carazy, article – Alfred Kazin Notes: Full page auto ads

1974

April, 1974 Interview – Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden The Great Switcheroo, fiction – Roald Dahl Blood Tax at Harvest Time, article – Herbert Gold Resurrection, article – Marshall Frady The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, article – Larry L. King Playboy’s History of Organized Crime, article – Richard Hammer The Old Morality, fiction – Carlos Fuentes Macho Machines, article – Brock Yates Notes: Two page spread auto ads

May, 1974 Interview – Henry Aaron All the President’s Men, article – Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward Playboy’s History of Organized Crime, article – Richard Hammer How the New York Stock Exchange, the Life Insurance Industry, the SEC, and a host of

other guardians of the public wealth allowed the American public to be swindled out of $400,000,000, article – Raymond L. Dirks and Leonard Gross.

July, 1974 Playboy goes to a witches’ convention Interview – Barry Commoner Witches’ Brew, article – Mordecai Richler

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Nothing But the Truth…And Other Lies, article – Douglas Bauer Playboy’s History of Organized Crime, article – Richard Hammer Diary of a Customs Inspector, article – Frank Jacobs and Peter Pitkin

August, 1974 Interview – Erich Von Daniken Venus or the Virgin? Fiction – Sean O’Faolain The Atmosphere People, article – William Murray Down and Out and Female The Hard Hearts, five tough men for the savage seventies, article Instant Warhol - pictorial

October, 1974 Interview – Al Goldstein Old Dance on the Killing Ground, article – Charles Gaines In Russian, “To be silent” is an active verb, article – Herbert Gold Jazz and Pop Poll Note: Good example of watch ad (pg. 35).

December, 1974 Interview – Robert Redford The Erotic World of Salvador Dali, pictorial Kissinger, personality – Garry Willis Mel Brooks’ “Young Frankenstein”, humor – Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks Stuck in the Middle with you, article – George Johnson Getting off, article – Larry King Remembering the Chelsea, article – James T. Farrrell Notes: Excellent example of advertisements. Includes 10 pages of full ads, (pg. 50-60).

1975January, 1975

Interview – John Dean A Very Expensive High, article – Richard Rhodes Does Your Husband Know You’re Bisexual? Article – John Medleman Top Coats, attire

March, 1975 Interview – Billie Jean King Shaping Up, modern living Holy War on 34th Street, fiction – Norman Spinrad Elmer Gantry for President, article – Robert Sherrill Tally Ho in the Pentago, article – James W. Canan Warming Trends, attire Who’s Afraid of Hard Times, article – William F. Rickenbacker. Memoir – Larry L. King

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October, 1975 Cover: Sappho, stunning portraits of women in love Interview – Cher Nelson Rockefeller Takes Care of Everybody, article – Robert Scheer Playboy Hots Up a Honda, modern living Who’s been sleeping in my dorm? An informal campus survey, how women are feeling

about sex, what they’re doing about it—and how they rate the college men in their lives, article

Keeping your fi-hi modern living

1976January, 1976

Interview – Elton John The Glaciers are Coming, article – Robert Ardrey The Doorbell, fiction – Vladimir Nabokov Playboy’s History of Assassination, article – James McKinley Coach, it helps me relax, article – Muhammad Ali with Richard Durham Failure as its own reward, article – Craig Karpel America is Going Broke, article – Scott Burns Falconer, fiction – John Cheever

February, 1976 Interview – James Caan Oil: The Final Solution – Robert Sherrill The True American, fiction – Melvin Van Peebles “I don’t make hocus-pocus”, article – Dan Greenburg An American Gestapo, article – Frank Browning Playboy’s History of Assassination, article – James McKinley

May, 1976 Interview – Abbie Hoffman The Demons of Gerald Ford, article – Richard Rhodes Playboy’s History of Assassination, article – James McKinley Notes: Seurat Inspired cover

July, 1976 Interview – Karl Hess Forbidden Words – Thom Racina Forbidden Games – Garry Wills Do You Know Lily Tomlin? Personality – Louise Bernikow Playboy’s History of Assassination, article – James McKinley

August, 1976

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Interview – Robert Altman Around the World in 80 Hours – Lawrence Pitkethly. All congress has done to prevent

future Vietnams is put a 90-day limit on Presidential police actions; we could still have four wars a year.

The Wrath of God, article - David B. Tinnin. For nearly a year after the Munich Olympics, Israeli secret agents hunted down and killed Black September terrorists all over Europe. How their 13th hit went tragically astray is startlingly recounted in this previously untold story.

Me and the Other Girls, article – Kathy Lowry

September, 1976 Interview: David Bowie The Girls of Washington The Puppet and the Puppetmasters, article – Larry Dubois and Laurence Gonzales. In this

explosive expose, our authors show how Howard Hughes’s multibillion dollar empire was gradually turned into the biggest covert intelligence front in history, how Hughes purchased a United States President and how the monster Hughes created got so enormous it swallowed him whole, resulting in Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon

Slapstick or Lonesome No More! Fiction -- Kurt Vonnegut Sue the Bastards! Article. – Robert S. Weider, demonstrating on campuses Notes: Excellent image of Nixon as puppet. Iron-on Playboy image. Turkish Cigarette ad

(pg. 147). LGBTQ representation with Bowie.

1977March, 1977

Interview --Senator Pat Moyniham Rocky Mountain Hype, opinion – D. Keith Mano Sexual Perversity in Chicago, from a play – David Mamet Let them eat sodium stearoyl-2-lactylate, article – Nicholas Von Hoffman The Firecracker vs. the Bomb, essay – Henry Milleer Jimmy Carter and the U.S, an editor’s notebook – G. Barry Golson. A look at Playboy’s

historic interview Portrait of Dick Clark

May, 1977 Interview – SNL Oral History, fiction – Nadine Gordimer Terror, Inc. – article – David B. Tinnin. A journalistic investigation that reveals the

sources, training techniques and purpose of the ongoing wave of terror. Plastic man, modern living

July, 1977 Interview – UN Ambassador Andrew Young

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Sex Goes Public – articles. A Survey on the emergence of public-sex display among the homosexual community, the straight crowd in New York City and in California.

o The Gays Pioneer – Arthur Bello The Straights Follow – Dan Roseno Sex- California Style – Jules Siegel

Look Good this Summer, attire

August, 1977 Arms, anyone? – Peter J. Ognibene. Military arms sales Interview – Henry Winkler Cohabitation, The Tender Trap, article – Emma Stevens and Stephen Holmes Auto Exotica, pictorial

October, 1977 Interview – Barbra Streisand It’s So Easy, It’s a crime, article – Hank Whittemore. Counterfeiting The Right Rig for Your Room, modern living The Playboy Enemies List Fall and Winter Fashion Forecast, attire Notes: Barbra Streisand cover. First and only time she appeared in Playboy.

December, 1977 Interview - John Denver How the South Spread and the Rose Again – Julian Bond 1978 Playboy Music Poll

1978February, 1978

Interview – Don Meredith Wired to the teeth, drugs and sports – Neil Amdur The Human Factor, fiction – Graham Greene The Female Ego, essay – Jules Siegel The End of the World, article – Senator George McGovern. Military-industrial complex. Notes: Cut in back cover

July, 1978 Interview – William Colby Astral Projection and the horse that could count, article – Carl Sagan Shades of meaning, modern living The World of Leroy Neiman, pictorial Saint Jane and the Hollywood Dragon, personality – Jim Harwood. Jane Fonda. Notes: Tear in front cover

September, 1978

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Interview – Sylvester Stallone The Plot to Wreck the Golden Greek, article. – Jim Hougan. A real life spy story about

how Richard Nixon, the CIA, Chief Justice Warren Burger and American Oil interests ganged upon on poor old Aristotle Onassis.

Drugs ’78. A comprehensive examination of the love affair between America and the assorted chemicals we swallow, snort, smoke and inject.

o Better Living Through Chemistry, some precautionary notes, editorialo Major Drugs: Their uses and effectso Uppers & Downerso Pusher in the Gray-Flanner Suit, article – James McKinleyo Street-wise, article -- Arthur Stickgold

Europe: The Outer Limits, attire Notes: Missing cover

November, 1978 Interview – Geraldo Rivera Perfect match, fiction – Barbara Rochelle The Hoffa Wars, article – Dan E. Moldea Growing poor by degrees, opinion – Ben Stein

1979February 1979

The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: Sex 1978 Strike Teams: Can the U.S. Handle the Terrorist Threat? Is there a Diesel in Your Future? Arthur C. Clarke’s Super Sci-Fi Thriller Playboy Hits the Jackpot: The Girls of Las Vegas Playboy Interviews the King of Comedy, Neil Simon

July 1979 The Girls of James Bond. Exclusive Uncoverage from 007’s Spectacular New Thriller,

“Moonraker.” Why Doctors Don’t Know Anything about Sex Patti McGuire (Connors) Revisited The High-Powered Politics of Picking the Pope

August 1979 Candy’s Back: A Loving Encore for Our 25th Anniversary Playmate [Candy Loving] The Rolling Stones: An Insider’s Seamy Story Irvin Shaw: First Look at His Great New Novel Nuclear Reactions: Edward Teller Interviewed. Our Coming Atomic Wasteland.

September 1979 Girls Women of Ivy League Revealed Pete Rose Slams Fans, Management, Media, Plugs Self

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Non-nuke ways to Survive without Oil Playboy finds Phi Beta Kappa Playmate

October 1979 – Cover, Burt Reynolds Norman Mailer’s Nonfiction Masterpiece: The Life and Death of Gary Gilmore No. 1 Box Office Star Burt Reynolds, His Most Revealing Interview Ever The Miracles of Bear Bryant Bodacious & Beautiful! Bunnies of ‘79

December 1979 – Cover, Raquel Welch Raquel – A Photographic Celebration of the Decade’s Most Desired Woman Gala Christmas Issue Al Pacino Talks in His First Ever In-Depth Interview Norman Mailer’s Stunning Account of Gary Gilmore’s Final Hours Betting the N.F.L. – How to Beat the Point Spread Sex in Los Angeles – The Secret Life of Tinseltown Playmates Encore: Your All Time Favorites Look Better than Ever! Sex Stars of ‘79 Plus: John Updike, Frederick Forsyth, Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder, Richard Pryor,

Anson Mount, Shel Silverstein, Leroy Neiman and a Feast of Holiday Goodies

1980January, 1980 – Cover, Steve Martin

Wild & Crazy Anniversary issue with a Steve Martin Interview Up Against the 1980s – Alvin Toffler’s New Future Shocker Fun and Pajama Games at Playboy Mansion West San Francisco: Gay Power Ignites a Straight Backlash The N.FL.’s Sexiest Cheerleaders! Playboy scores again Plus: John LeCarrre’s latest spine-tingler, The New, Razzle-dazzle “Star Trek,” Andrew

Tobias on Keeping your money, Playboy’s playmate review and much, much more.

February, 1980 Special Valentine Issue. Suzanne Somers’ Nude Playmate Test. Ten glorious pages of

TV’s Hottest Sex Star Romance in the Fast Lane – A Concorde Weekend in Paris. Playboy’s Guide to the Winter Olympics. A Rousing Look at the Year in Sex. William F. Buckley, Jr.’s Latest Spy Thriller. The Slick New Face of the KKK. Top Presidential Advisor Patrick Caddell Interviewed

1985September, 1985 – Cover, Madonna

Madonna Nude. Unlike a Virgin...For the Very First Time Plus: Dan Jenkins, Billy Crystal, Anson Mount, John Huston, Andrew Tobias

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1988July, 1988 - Cover, Cindy Crawford

Super Model Cindy Crawford by Super Photographer Herb Ritts The Last Words of Ronald Reagan Plus: Jay Leno, Jesse Jackson, Dan Greenburg, Paul Hogan, Judge Reinhold, Buster

Poindexter.

1990sMay, 1994

Elle: Nude at Last Danger and Desire: Why Bad Girls Are So Good Bunny Yeager: Fabled photos of a Pinup legend How Opie Conquered Hollywood: A Candid Interview with Ron Howard How Dirty Pictures Changed my Life by Lisa Palac. A former antiporn crusader muses

on the positive powers of smut and its growing feminist audience.

2000sMay/June 2018

Interview – Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards Sex: Orgasm 101: Become a Master at pushing her buttons Politics: Why a Bevy of bean counters could protect our democracy from malicious

Russian influence The State of Jazz: A look at the ever-shifting landscape of America’s essential art form Heritage: Jazz fest turns 40. Plus: Hef’s 1963 arrest; playmates Michele Drake and Elan

Carter; classic cartoons Note: Images invoke the “femlin” also seen in May 1963 and other iconic issues.

Fragments / Clippings:

Centerfolds:

Patti Reynolds, September 1965 Melinda Windsor, February 1966 Claudia Jennings, November 1969

Advertisements:

Ad for Paris belts and Columbia Records. Circa 1958 Ad for Playboy special holiday gift rates, undated, likely 50s.

OUI also housed in Box 16 with Playboy Collection.

OUI – First French edition, November 1963 under the name Lui. Purchased by Playboy Enterprises in 1972. First U.S. edition Oui in October 1972. Ended in 2007.

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June 1973 (Vol. 2, No. 6) Issue found in 1860 Christian Advocate in Methodist Archives.

August 1973 (Vol. 2, No. 8)

February 1974 (Vol. 3, No. 2)

August 1974 (Vol. 3, No. 8)

February 1979 (Vol. 8, No. 2)